linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Missing bio_put following submit_bio

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Message-ID: <5756FACF.8030202@kernel.dk>
Date:	Tue, 7 Jun 2016 10:48:15 -0600
From:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:	Shaun Tancheff <shaun@...cheff.com>, linux-block@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	David Drysdale <drysdale@...gle.com>,
	Xiong Zhou <xzhou@...hat.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-nvdimm@...1.01.org,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>,
	bart.vanassche@...disk.com,
	Shaun Tancheff <shaun.tancheff@...gate.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Missing bio_put following submit_bio_wait

On 06/07/2016 10:32 AM, Shaun Tancheff wrote:
> submit_bio_wait() gives the caller an opportunity to examine
> struct bio and so expects the caller to issue the put_bio()
>
> This fixes a memory leak reported by a few people in 4.7-rc2
> kmemleak report after 9082e87bfbf8 ("block: remove struct bio_batch")
>
> Signed-off-by: Shaun Tancheff <shaun.tancheff@...gate.com>
> Tested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
> Tested-by: Larry Finger@...inger.net
> Tested-by: David Drysdale <drysdale@...gle.com>

Thanks, applied.

-- 
Jens Axboe